Wife saw bullet hole
The other day, we read about Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark whose wife watched him die during a Skype conversation they were having. Tman sends a link to an Associated Press report that the family has released a statement which describes her final moments communicating with her husband;
“Clark was suddenly knocked forward,” the statement said. “The closet behind him had a bullet hole in it. The other individuals, including a member of the military, who rushed to the home of CPT Clark’s wife also saw the hole and agreed it was a bullet hole.”
The statement says the Skype link remained open for two hours on April 30 as family and friends in the U.S. and Afghanistan tried to get Clark help.
“After two hours and many frantic phone calls by Mrs. Clark, two military personnel arrived in the room and appeared to check his pulse, but provided no details about his condition to his wife,” the statement said.
The Pentagon has said the cause of Clark’s death remains under investigation.
I know the wife isn’t a CSI, but this sort of speculation should propel the Department of Defense into telling us something about CPT Clark’s death. With the steadily increasing number of green-on-blue attacks, one would think if that wasn’t the case in this particular death, DoD would tell us that isn’t the cause of CPT Clark’s death.
Category: Military issues
This is to be expected when we train the enemy.
Condolences to the family seem to be out of order (an understatement) as watching her husband get killed was too extreme for that – but they’re offered.
Another instance of ‘it’s best to wait and see what shakes loose.’
Could be ND. Could be homicide (green or blue on blue). Could be an act of war.
War is sometimes too close too home. With the speed of communication it has become too close to home for some and too seperated for others.
This is sounding more and more like a negligent discharge to me. Just my totally unqualified, unhelpful and presumptuous two cents.
I remember one time, on FOB Normandy, in 2007, my buddy was in the shitter. A random 7.62 round cruised through the plastic wall and nailed him in the scalp. Grazed him, that’s it. Got lucky.
Random.
Maybe? Maybe not?
This is sounding more and more like a negligent discharge to me. Just my totally unqualified, unhelpful and presumptuous two cents.
Make that 4 cents.
ND or stray round is also a plausible theory, given the new facts. Our compound lost a guy (not one of mine, thank God) to what was apparently the latter in late 2007 or early 2008.
But at this point, all are just theories. We won’t know until the investigation is completed and the results released.
I realize tht I’ve been out for a while. But, isn’t a head count part of the protocol following an ND?
TWO HOURS? absolutely unacceptable. Regardless of whether it was ND or not, I am thinking the good CPT was collateral damage.
@HM2, agree!
When Big Army drags it’s feet on something like this, and delays release of information, that usually means the findings aren’t something they want public. Remember Pat Tillman? Or the WRAMC ‘scandal’? There’s a lot more to this story than is being told.